News: AMD to Make Top 10 List of World's Largest Chip Makers

After years of coming close to breaking into the top-10 global semiconductor rankings, AMD may finally hit the big time before the end of 2006, according to a preliminary ranking from iSuppli Corp. AMD's semiconductor revenue is expected to explode by a stunning 90 percent in 2006, which will cause the company's ranking to jump eight places, making it the world's seventh-largest chip maker for the year. Memory maker Hynix also cracks the list just behind AMD at number eight. Hynix set to achieve a 32.5 percent increase in revenue, pushing its ranking up three positions to take the eighth position in 2006.